The first subsection of the method section of a research report is called either participants or subjects depending on whether the data were gathered _____.
a. by phone or in person c. human or nonhuman
b. from adults of children d. in writing or orally
According to APA style, the _____ section of a research report has three separate subsections.
a. method c. introduction
b. discussion d. results
For interval and ratio scales of measurement, _____ statistics are the preferred tools of analysis.
a. nonparametric c. descriptive
b. parametric d. ipsilateral
If ranked scores are ipsative, then
a. within any individual participant, the scores sum to a constant
b. they are especially easy to interpret
c. there must have been a flaw in the experimental design
d. nonparametric statistics must be used to analyze the data
Why should we use parametric statistical tests when analyzing ordinal data if we could just as easily use nonparametric tests? We do so because _____.
a. nonparametric tests are too powerful
b. parametric tests are descriptive statistics
c. nonparametric tests take too long to compute
d. parametric tests are more powerful than nonparametric tests
The inferential statistics for most ordinally scaled dependent measures are _____.
a. the t test and Chi-square c. the t test and Friedman's test
b. the t test and analysis of variance d. analysis of variance and Chi-square
In a contingency table, the sum of the row totals equals _____.
a. the number of variables c. equals the number of cells
b. the number of participants d. the sum of the column totals
In a contingency table, each row total and each column total is called a _____.
a. marginal c. partial sum
b. grand total d. unit total
The number of cells in a cross-tabulation table equals _____.
a. the number of columns c. the product of the rows and columns
b. the number of rows d. the number of nominal variables
When constructing a cross-tabulation table, there will be one cell for each
a. row
b. column
c. variable
d. point of intersection of variables
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